The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-23

WARRANTS were issued last week at Mon
treal for the arrest of five members of the
first board of directors of the Montreal,
Portland q Boston railroad on the charge
of conspiracy and fraud.
DB. u. T. Sewers, one of the most EN-
inent physicians of Washington, declared
Monday that there is danger that President
Cleveland will not live through his term
unless there is change in his mode of
living.
THE Concord railroad has issued an order
to its locomotive engineers, requesting them
to exercise great caution in passing bridges.
They are directed to slacken steam before
arriving at the bridges, and to use great care
in going over them.
FOUR men have been killed in two weeks
at Texarkana, Ark, over the question of
ferry fare. Two ferrymen charged a drum
mer high figure; a wealthy farmer took
sides with the drummer and the quarrel has
strung out ever since.
A BULL-F1GHT was announced for San Ra-
fael, Mexico, and fifty thousand spectators
were there, some paying eight dollars for
seat. The bulls would not fight, and the
and killed the animals.
WALTER f. LAWSON of Lawson Brothers,
New York, wholesale dealers in fertilizers,
has suddenly disappeared, leaving million
dollars in obligation. He collected a hun
dred thousand before going. The firm has
ldlltu, anu Wtlt pltSSlhS ndlh-
A REMARKABLE darkness enveloped Lon
don at noon last week Wednesday. 1t was
dark as midnight in the entire region of
Charing Cross, Whitehall and the Strand,
the atmosphere being pitchy black. In the
east and southwest portions of the city it
was somewhat clearer. Snow was falling
heavily at the time.
Forty representative merchants and man
ufacturers of Chicago have held meeting
and organized an association for the purpose
of resisting the railroads in the advance
ment in the mileage of commercial travellers
The speakers favored the idea of selecting
an eastern and a western road to do their
business and boycotting all the rest.
THE engine and tender of train on the
Marietta, Columbus & Northern railroad
went through Vincent trestle near Marietta,
| Ohio. Lyle Vincent and Albert Boothby,
engineer and fireman, were killed, and John
| Mccoy and William Stewart, conductor and
brakeman, badly scalded, Michael Early,
a passenger, had his left leg crushed
As the matter now stands, the interstate
commerce commission is to be Judge Thomas
| NJ. Cooley of Michigan independent repub-
! lican) chairman, William II. Morrison of
Illinois (democraD, w. l.. Bragg of Alabama
| (democraD and j. d. Herman (democrat)
of New York The other republican, or So
| called republican, is to come from New
England or the Middle States.
THERE was an exciting debate in the Brit
| ish house of commons Friday night, as a
! preface to the coming attempt of the govern
ment to get coercion bill passed. Dillon
attacked the cabinet for cruelty and gave a
thrilling account of the recent cowardly
| murder of HanlOn by the police at NOughal.
Balfour, the Irish secretary, responded in
an angry speech. Mr.. Parnell spoke coolly
| but scathingly.
The insane freak of Charles p. Freeman,
who murdered his daughter in Pocassett,
| Mass, in December, 1888 while laboring
under the deusion that he must offer up his
daughter as a sacrifice to God, is brought to
the notice of the public again by his dis
charge from the asylum for insane at Dan
vers on the 10th by action of Governor
Ames and council, he having been pro-
noInced cured mentally by several physi-
clans.
DIR. T. n. MCLAUGHLIN, physician-n-
chief of the Philadelphia hospital, reports
marvellous success in treating consumptive
patients by the straightforward French
system of rectal injection of a preparation
Of carbolic acid gas, all other medicines
being abandoned. OF thirty patients in the
last stages of consumption, all have greatly
| improved under this treatment, and to all
appearances are rapidly recovering their
| health
A panic occurred at the Roman Catholic
Church of the Nativity in Chicago last
Thursday, The church was completely
crowded and outside, on the steps leading
up to the church, was vast crowd unable
to gain admission. All at once there was a
sharp crack, followed by grinding crash
and fully 200 men, women and children
were precipitated ten feet, the entire plat
form having given way. Twenty-three per-
| sons in all received more or less serious
injuries.
The superintendent of motive power on
the New York Central railroad said Friday
| that the trial nf the heating a
paratus which was made Thursday on the
train running from Peekskill to New York
demonstrated the feasibility of the scheme.
The trouble of connecting the pipes be-
tween the cars was overcome by the use of
brass telescope and ball and socket joint.
The steam is used direct from the locom0-
tive boiler through a pressure-reducing
valve and strain of five pounds is carried
on the pipes.
THE flood on the upper Missouri is growing
worse. A mile of the Northern Pacific rail
road track is washed out near Bismarck and
the telegraph wires are all down. There is
no communication with Mandan, across the
river, and by glass one can see that the
town is mostly under water. The deluge is
as bad as that of 1881; through travel is
blocked, and the express from st. Paul
| turns back eastward again on reaching Bis
marck. Five hundred pounds of dynamite
have been used to break up the ice gorge
without effect.
A STRANGE case of suspended animation
has just leaked out. On Monday, February
2Sth, young man named Stanton APP
parently died of consumption at the house
of his brother, who was doctor in Boston
The brother did not believe life extinct,
although other doctors did and tried to pre-.
vent burial. However the supposed corpse
was entombed on Thursday of last week
and DIR. Stanton went to the coffin every
few hours. On Friday the body had moved
slightly. Although the family thought him
crazy, he brought the body back to the
house and put it in bed. On Saturday il
began to grow warm and the eyes TO open
with a CLASSY stare; on Sunday conscious
ness returned, and late last week the invalid
was up, dressed and feeling rather nicely.
r. G.. Dun & Co. of the mercantile agency
send out the following review " 1t Is be
coming more generally realized that the in.
terstate commerce bill is for the time al
fecting business unfavorably. In some
branches, as in the movement of dry goods
to the West, a temporary furry of greater
activity results from the desire TO transport
before the coming change of rates. But in
other trades the uncertainty as to future
rates produces almost a paralysis, which is
rendered more serious in the iron business
by the question whether railway building
and repairing may not be checked. Many
vaguely look for better understanding OF
the act when commissioners are announced
but the commissioners will have TO await
decisions of many courts before they car
know what powers they have. Hence il
can hardly he hoped that uncertainty re
garding the effects of the act will be sOoI